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I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.
Edwin Land
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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
Entrepreneur
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
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My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.
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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
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You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.
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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.
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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
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The bottom line is in heaven!
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The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
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We can be dramatic, even theatrical we can be persuasive but the message we are telling must be true.
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We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
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[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.
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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
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Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.
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The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.
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Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.
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It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.
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